Recent Winners
American Literary Translators Association
LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE
Archana Venkatesan of West Sacra0mento, California, won the 2021 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for her translation from the Tamil of Nammalvar’s epic poem Endless Song (India Penguin). She received $6,000. Jeffrey Angles, Maithreyi Karnoor, and Rajiv Mohabir judged. The annual award is given for a book of poetry or a text from Zen Buddhism translated from an Asian language into English and published in the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)
ITALIAN PROSE IN TRANSLATION AWARD
Stephen Twilley of Chicago won the 2021 Italian Prose in Translation Award for his translation from the Italian and French of Curzio Malaparte’s work of literary nonfiction Diary of a Foreigner in Paris (New York Review Books Classics). He received $5,000. Stiliana Milkova, Minna Zallman Proctor, and Will Schutt judged. The annual award is given for a book of fiction or nonfiction translated from Italian into English and published in the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)
NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARDS
Geoffrey Brock of Fayetteville, Arkansas, won the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry for his translation from the Italian of Giuseppe Ungaretti’s poetry collection Allegria (Archipelago Books). Sinan Antoon, Layla Benitez-James, and Sibelan Forrester judged. Tejaswini Niranjana of Ahmedabad, India, won the 2021 National Translation Award in Prose for her translation from the Kannada of Jayant Kaikini’s short story collection No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories (Catapult). Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, and Annie Janusch judged. Brock and Niranjana each received $2,500. The annual awards are given for a book of poetry and a book of prose translated from any language into English and published in the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)
American Literary Translators Association, University of Arizona, Esquire Building #205, 1230 North Park Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721. Rachael Daum, Communications and Awards Manager. rachaeldaum@literarytranslators.org
literarytranslators.org/awards
Anhinga Press
ANHINGA PRIZE FOR POETRY
Craig Beaven of Tallahassee, Florida, won the 2021 Anhinga Prize for Poetry for Teaching the Baby to Say I Love You. He received $2,000, and his book will be published by Anhinga Press in September. Ellen Bass judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. The next deadline is May 31.
Anhinga Press, Anhinga Prize for Poetry, P.O. Box 3665, Tallahassee, FL 32315. Kristine Snodgrass, Contact. info@anhinga.org
Arts & Letters
ARTS & LETTERS PRIZES
of Santa Monica, California, won the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry for “Where Warm and Cool Air Meet,” “Downriver,” “Radiant Stranger,” and “House Full of Someones.” of Newton, Massachusetts, won the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction for “The Cellar.” of Tucson won the Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction for “The Tax of Quick Alarm.” They each received $1,000, and their winning works were published. Romeo Oriogun judged in poetry, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma judged in fiction, and Kristi Coulter judged in creative nonfiction. The annual awards are given for a group of poems, a short story, and an essay. (SEE DEADLINES.)
